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Dates 1740-1783
Location London
Vocation Physician; man-midwife
Place of Birth East Kilbride
Marriage
Issue
Place of birth Source Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Educated at Glasgow and Edinburgh. Went to London to study midwifery under William Smellie (1740). Began working under Scottish man-midwife James Douglas (1741), and established his own surgical and midwifery practice (1744). Began teaching anatomy (1746). Member of the Company of Surgeons (c.1747). Man-midwife to Middlesex Hospital (1748) and to British Lying-in Hospital (1749-1759). Elected to Society of London Physicians (1754). Attended Queen Charlotte, and became her physician-extraordinary (1762). Joined Society of Collegiate Physicians (c.1762). Elected to the Royal Society (1767). Elected to the Society of Antiquaries (1768). Moved into a purpose-guilt residence and teaching facility on Great Windmill Street (1768), where he remained for the rest of his life.